Coffee as dye

[RVM45]

Speaking of natural dies--anyone ever try staining leather with blood?

I cut myself pretty good at work a few years ago. Bled all over my Leather tool bag. Several years later; the blood stained areas are still a rich brown.

{Slaughterhouses will be happy to defibrinate and save five gallons or so for you. If you're a regular customer, they may not even charge you. If you don't want them to think you're a Vampire--tell them its for BloodSausage, or that you're making Catfish bait.}

.....RVM45

[Brushpopper]

If you have carved or stamped the leather, does letting it steep in tea or coffee, maybe overnight, affect the crispness of the tooling?

Also, Chuck, (if you're listening!) - did you use sealer on the flesh side of those terrific cuffs?

[ChuckBurrows]

If you have carved or stamped the leather, does letting it steep in tea or coffee, maybe overnight, affect the crispness of the tooling?

Also, Chuck, (if you're listening!) - did you use sealer on the flesh side of those terrific cuffs?

You can either pre-dye or in my case I reduce the dye until it's concentrated (with coffee leave the grounds in) and apply like any other dye with no long soak.....

They are lined with full grain buckskin so no flesh side and yes I did seal with Tan Kote........

Edited March 4, 2009 by ChuckBurrows

[Brushpopper]

Thanks for the reply, Chuck.

Some of your holsters that are dyed with coffee would have an exposed flesh side. Do you seal that to stop the coffee rubbing off on clothes?

I dyed a holster with tea once and noticed a week or two later that some of it was staining my pants.

[danielb]

I dyed a holster with tea once and noticed a week or two later that some of it was staining my pants.

Anybody of You had the same effect?